All posts tagged Tokyo Stock Exchange

Non-Japan-based investors unloaded a record amount of Tokyo shares last week, a sign that foreign investors may be disillusioned with Abenomics.

Ministry of Finance data released Thursday showed overseas investors sold a net Y1.09 trillion in Japan equities and investment-fund shares in the week ended March 15. That was the biggest net selloff since the ministry began collecting data in 2005. Read More »

Overseas investors sold more Japanese stock than they bought in January, recording the highest level of monthly net selling since August 2011, as they pulled back from a market that has cooled considerably from its red-hot performance in 2013.

Foreign-led outflows totaled ¥751.9 billion ($7.36 billion) in the final week of the month alone, bringing the monthly tally to just over ¥1 trillion, according to Ministry of Finance data released Monday.

The number is significant, since this group of investors is regularly behind 60% or more of daily Japan stock trading by value, Tokyo Stock Exchange statistics show. Read More »

Tokyo stocks plunged to a two-month low Monday, ricocheting off a sharply lower Wall Street over signs that an end to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s easy money policy could hit China and other emerging economies.

The Nikkei Stock Average ended down 2.5% with trading volume hitting its highest level so far this year. The index has now surrendered 4.4% over the last two sessions, and is now off nearly 8% to start the new year. Read More »

Shares of video game console-maker Nintendo Co. opened sharply lower Monday following its surprise announcement that it now expects a Y25 billion ($240 million) fiscal-year net loss, down from a previous projection of a Y55 billion net profit.

As of 0050 GMT, Nintendo was down 10% from its 14,645 Friday close, at Y13,120. Its New York-traded American Depository Receipts fell 17% Friday. Read More »

Japan’s huge glacier of stationary household wealth may finally be melting, a development that could help local markets and the country’s economic recovery.

After much fanfare, the activation of Nippon Individual Saving Accounts officially kicked off Monday.

Part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic reform plan, the tax-free NISA system is designed to coax Japan’s chronic savers to put money into stocks, bonds, and other assets to spur domestic growth instead of just parking cash in regular bank accounts. Read More »

If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is worried at all about the ire of Asian neighbors over his recent visit to a shrine linked to Japan’s war-time past, he didn’t show it Monday as he celebrated the final stock trading day of the year. Read More »

Shares of internet retailer Rakuten soared to an all-time high Wednesday after the company said it would to move to the Topix index of all the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section issues from the startup JASDAQ bourse on Dec. 3. Read More »

A new stock index unveiled Wednesday in Japan hasn’t even started, but investors are already lining up for one reason. They’re all betting the country’s massive public pension fund will invest too. Read More »